In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports over the weekend.
Samantha Stosur became the first Australian woman to win a major since 1980, defeating Serena Williams for the U.S. Open title. Williams, in the midst of her loss, went on a tirade where she called the chair umpire "unattractive inside," and wouldn't shake her hand after the match. She also defended her antics by saying, "we're in America last time I checked." A few miles south, the Statue of Liberty wept to see such an inspiring and heroic use of the First Amendment.
They were waiting in line to buy train tickets, a cluster of genteel souls dressed in red, wrestling with the MARTA ticket machines in Buckhead as if performing some kind of advanced calculus. They wore halter tops and cocktail dresses and golf shirts and scarlet pants patterned with little English bulldogs, and they toted leaky Styrofoam coolers overflowing with domestic beer. They filed down the stairs in a long, sloppy line that just kept growing. Chants of “Go Dawgs” echoed through the station. “If this game had been in Boise instead of Atlanta, we would have bought out their whole stadium,” one of them said. “We could sell two-hundred thousand tickets a game if they’d let us.”
